Log (c&p)
160x3
210x1
250x1
300xf, losing it out in front of me on the first bend, second attempt i punched it but couldn’t get under it
290xf lol losing steam
270x1 beltless and no wraps, this was hard. I’m really finding it hard to get any kind of rhythm with the log. Everything from the clean to the press feels like total shit. This is not flying with me.
Going to rant a bit about how I’m feeling. Recently I’ve been fucking smashed. My body is in a constant perpetual state of just breakdown. I’m constantly in aches and pain, it’s hard to sleep through the nights because of the ache in my biceps/elbows, knees, hips, and neck. I realize these pains aren’t exactly a result of misuse of my body. It’s at this time I realize how fucking brutal this sport is. I’ve been training on a pretty damn volumous and intense cycle for the past few weeks and already I’m in dire need of a deload, and in this state it can be a battle because I worry about the goal at the end of the tunnel a bit too much.
Like today I learned I am just NOT a 300lb log presser. To be complacent in the bravado of my 340lb PR overhead is to also be in denial of the fact that I don’t deserve to be a 300lb log presser. I simply am a log virgin and it’s a new animal. It got to me until I recognized I have so much more to deal with. This is probably the first time I’ve dealt with a long continuous frame of hard and heavy strongman training. God it sucks lol. Not even 2 years ago I was strict pressing 260lbs, thinking I’m going to fucking win everything and anything just because of how impressive that feat was alone. While it’s impressive, I can’t even say just how fucking diminutive that little antsy movement is in the wide perspective of the sport I’m doing. I would rather die than stop this. This is the most important time ever. It all counts here, to fuck shit up in the deepest of sand, even if it means taking it easy. I fucking love this shit.
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
Going to rant a bit about how I’m feeling. Recently I’ve been fucking smashed. My body is in a constant perpetual state of just breakdown. I’m constantly in aches and pain, it’s hard to sleep through the nights because of the ache in my biceps/elbows, knees, hips, and neck. I realize these pains aren’t exactly a result of misuse of my body. It’s at this time I realize how fucking brutal this sport is. I’ve been training on a pretty damn volumous and intense cycle for the past few weeks and already I’m in dire need of a deload, and in this state it can be a battle because I worry about the goal at the end of the tunnel a bit too much. Like today I learned I am just NOT a 300lb log presser. To be complacent in the bravado of my 340lb PR overhead is to also be in denial of the fact that I don’t deserve to be a 300lb log presser. I simply am a log virgin and it’s a new animal. It got to me until I recognized I have so much more to deal with. This is probably the first time I’ve dealt with a long continuous frame of hard and heavy strongman training. God it sucks lol. Not even 2 years ago I was strict pressing 260lbs, thinking I’m going to fucking win everything and anything just because of how impressive that feat was alone. While it’s impressive, I can’t even say just how fucking diminutive that little antsy movement is in the wide perspective of the sport I’m doing. I would rather die than stop this. This is the most important time ever. It all counts here, to fuck shit up in the deepest of sand, even if it means taking it easy. I fucking love this shit. [/quote]
That period is around the corner for me as well. Can’t extrapolate the metrics, but I’m approaching that limit. Especially when I get balls deep in actual strongman stuff again. That’s partially why I’m treating lifting as more of a seduction now than a chase. Gaming the iron like it’s pussy. For now though, the frictional components of my lifting progress are of a different nature.
this helped me out alot, even if my protocol called for retarded volume, it wasn’t my place to bend and break over meticulous parameters. anyway, luckily for me, the volume will be subsiding soon and i can focus more on events, and less time in the gym with the barbell.
LOL we have to be the only two idiots who find the background music that plays in lifting videos humurous, I learned by listening to billy joel my overhead should increase a good 20percent.lol
[quote]Jlabs wrote:
LOL we have to be the only two idiots who find the background music that plays in lifting videos humurous, I learned by listening to billy joel my overhead should increase a good 20percent.lol[/quote]
Dude, just because you said that, I’m gonna do my next stones session with that blasting.
Yoke in the pouring RAINNNN
270x100’
450x100’
540x60’
630x60’ 3 drops, not sure what the deal with yoke is atm, my legs just cant support the load
720x60’ one drop, dug in here, the drop occurred 5 feet from the finish, so the fact I took this that far without a drop is remarkable, keeping in mind, of course, my previous sets. no video, sorry expected this to be a dud workout.
Stones (over 48" bar)
175x5,5
253x5,5
tacky on
320x3,3,2,2 (idk)
Sandbag carry
204x100’
204x100’
254x100’,
254x100’
254x100’ god these SUCKED, the picks are terrible, hams and glutes lock up on teh pick and the pick just becomes terribly sluggish. walk was tolerable, but I have alot of work to do with these.
sandbag after stones makes for some really really beat up biceps and some acute tendonitis
SLDL (off 3" deficit) all hook grip
135x12
225x10
315x8
405x10 first rep on toes but I haven’t done a SLDL in a while nor have I been doing any sort of barbell deadlifts, so it suffices.
On those sandbag carries, are you doing shouldered or bearhug? I always hated bearhug, so fucking awkward. Then again shoulder is much harder to get into position.
[quote]burialatsea wrote:
Damn… time for a 350 stone?
On those sandbag carries, are you doing shouldered or bearhug? I always hated bearhug, so fucking awkward. Then again shoulder is much harder to get into position.[/quote]
Definitely bearhugging them, these bags are packed tight and are quite hard and really don’t have any softness to enable you to grab them with your hands.
And yeah, I’m fixing to make a ~360 and perhaps a 270-285ish sometime in the foreseeable future.
